Colors

4-bit color. These colors and styles are standard and work almost everywhere. They are useful in helping make your program output easier to read:

from fabulous import bold, magenta, highlight_red

print bold(magenta('hello kitty'))
print highlight_red('DANGER DANGER!')

print bold('hello') + ' ' + magenta( kitty')

assert len(bold('test')) == 4

8-bit color. If you want to spice things up a bit, Fabulous supports xterm256 colors:

from fabulous import fg256, bg256
print fg256('#F0F', 'hello kitty')
print fg256('magenta', 'hello kitty')

Fancy Text

Way cool text. This is something neat you can use when you program starts up to display its name with style:

from fabulous import text
print text.Text("Fabulous", color='#0099ff', shadow=True, scew=5)

Images

Fabulous lets you print images, which is more fun than useful. Fabulous’ unique method of printing images really shines when used with semi-transparent PNG files. When blending backgrounds, Fabulous assumes by default that your terminal has a black background. Don’t worry if your image is huge, it’ll be resized by default to fit your terminal:

from fabulous import utils, image
print image.Image("balls.png")

# adjust for a white background
utils.term.bgcolor = 'white'
print image.Image("balls.png")

It’s scriptable too (like img2txt)

python -m fabulous.image balls.png >balls.txt
cat balls.txt

Transient Logging

This is very useful tool for monitoring what your Python scripts are doing. It allows you to have full verbosity without drowning out important error messages:

import time, logging
from fabulous import logs
logs.basicConfig(level='WARNING')

for n in range(20):
    logging.debug("verbose stuff you don't care about")
    time.sleep(0.1)
logging.warning("something bad happened!")
for n in range(20):
    logging.debug("verbose stuff you don't care about")
    time.sleep(0.1)